Sitting Bull - Mother - Daughter - Grandchild

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Title: Sitting Bull - Mother - Daughter - Grandchild
Creator: Miller Studios (Pierre, S.D.)
Published/Created: [Pierre, Dakota Territory] : [Miller Studios], [1883?]
Physical Description: 1 photograph : albumen print ; mount 16.5 x 11 cm (cabinet card format)
Notes: Studio group portrait of Sitting Bull (at center) seated with mother Her-Holy-Door (at left), daughter Many Horses (at right) and grandson Joseph Fly (at right in lap of Many Horses). Sitting Bull wears mixture of western and traditional clothing including hair feather, otter fur and cloth hair wraps and dentalium shell choker necklace while holding bead embroidered tobacco bag and pipe. Her-Holy-Door wears primarily western clothing and holds walking cane. Many Horses wears matching dentalium shell earrings and choker necklace while Joseph Fly appears to wear vest trimmed with cowrie shells or elk teeth. Photograph likely taken at Pierre, Dakota Territory, in May 1883 soon after Sitting Bull's band were paroled as prisoners of war from Fort Randall.; Title derived from contemporary inscribed image caption on verso.; "Her-Holy-Door" variant personal names: Good Elk Woman, Lost Woman, Mixed Day, Umpan Wastewin.; "Joseph Fly" variant personal names: Courting a Woman.; "Sitting Bull" variant personal names: Four Horn, Hunkesi, Jumping Badger, Sitting Buffalo Bull, Slon-he, Slow, Tah-ton-ka-he-yo-ta-kah, Tatanka Iyotanka, Tatanka Yotanka, Toro Seduto, Toro Sentado.; "Hunkpapa Indians" variant names: Unc Papa Indians, Uncpapa Indians, Unkpapa Indians.
Names and Subjects: Photographs shelf.; Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography.; Fly, Joseph,---1912--Portraits.; Her-Holy-Door,--approximately 1808-1884--Portraits.; Hunkpapa Indians.; Indians of North America--Great Plains.; Lakota Indians.; Many Horses,--1865-1897--Portraits.; Siouan Indians.; Sioux Nation.; Sitting Bull,--1831-1890--Portraits.; Beadwork--1880-1890.; Daughters--Lakota--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Embroidery--1880-1890.; Families--Lakota--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Family members--Lakota--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Hides & skins--1880-1890.; Indigenous peoples--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Infants--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Jewelry--1880-1890.; Mothers--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Necklaces--1880-1890.; Older people--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Pipes (Smoking)--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Sons--Lakota--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Staffs (Sticks)--1880-1890.; Tribal chiefs--United States--1880-1890.; Hunkpapa.; Indigenous peoples--Great Plains.; Lakota.; Siouan.
Genre: Albumen prints 1880-1890.; Cabinet photographs 1880-1890.; Group portraits 1880-1890.
Collection Title: Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography
Collection Creator: Pohrt, Richard, Jr.
ID: 435
Barcode: B10933077
Call Number: Photo Div Pohrt CAB MilS.001
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Repository: William L. Clements Library

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Collection: Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection of Native American Photography
Image Size: 5760 x 3494
File Size: 918 KB
Record: 435
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